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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2019-08-29, 10:46

by CuPid

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… there is a way to tell if a 386 is Intel or AMD, if this is the case I'll add a fix. the benchmark …

Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2019-08-29, 11:15

by elianda

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… there is a way to tell if a 386 is Intel or AMD, if this is the case I'll add a fix. the benchmark …

Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2019-08-29, 11:21

by GigAHerZ

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… there is a way to tell if a 386 is Intel or AMD, if this is the case I'll add a fix. the benchmark …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-08-29, 14:13

by PTherapist

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… it always has. The new BIOS now recognises the installed AMD K6-2 CPU rather than displaying it as an 80486. It …

Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2019-08-30, 13:42

by CuPid

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… method exists that can tell if a 386 is Intel or AMD. Concerning the Nexgen, I found no way to read the L2 …

Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2019-08-30, 20:48

by CuPid

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… -NxPC-System-Logic-Data-Book.htm According to him, only AMD can provide a copy of the book today. It is worth …

Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2019-08-30, 21:19

by feipoa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… software these days. The key is the find a person at AMD who cares and has access to archives. Most employees probably …

Re: Throttle Dos

Posted on 2019-08-31, 04:03

by Revolter

in Marvin \ Software

MrSmiley381, maybe it's the CPU itself that refuses to get throttled? I've had no luck with a non-MMX Pentium 1 as well on a 430TX with a compatible southbridge. I believe it only works with later CPUs, such as Pentium Pro derivatives (PII, PIII etc.) and, reportedly, AMD K6-#.

Re: Throttle Dos

Posted on 2019-08-31, 05:30

by MrSmiley381

in Marvin \ Software

… , such as Pentium Pro derivatives (PII, PIII etc.) and, reportedly, AMD K6-#. Whoops, you'd think I'd mention the CPU when troubleshooting …

Re: Any major penalties for running 32bit os on 64bit CPU?

Posted on 2019-08-31, 15:30

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… (286 and before). These docs could cause Intel and others (AMD, VIA) to release new CPUs with wrong implementations of early …

Re: Any major penalties for running 32bit os on 64bit CPU?

Posted on 2019-08-31, 16:32

by Scali

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… chipsets, which were supported just fine. Same with NV or AMD GPUs. Ironically enough, Microsoft didn't have an x64 version of …

Re: Any major penalties for running 32bit os on 64bit CPU?

Posted on 2019-08-31, 19:41

by kolderman

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wat. AMD literally called it's 64 bit design for x86 an extension. …

[solved (kind of)] 3d realms games cyrix incompatibilty?

Posted on 2019-09-01, 00:13

by bamdad

in Marvin \ Software

… . so i have an old machine that used to have an AMD 486DX4-100 until recently, then i found a 100mhz IBM (cyrix) 5x86 …

Re: My MB-8500TTD arrived ..but is a bit unwell.

Posted on 2019-09-01, 10:40

by feipoa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This board will run an AMD K6-III+ 500 MHz chip beautfully with 256 MB RAM if you know of all the quirks to making this happen. Let me know when you are interested and I can walk you through it.